E1 Series Brings Its Remote-First Broadcast Model to Miami for Season Finale

The UIM E1 Series wraps its third season this week with the Bombay Sapphire E1 Miami GP, Nov. 11-14, on Biscayne Bay at the Miami Seaplane Base on Watson Island. The electric powerboat series arrives as what E1 calls a scale-up sport, with 10 teams on the grid and a target of 12 by the start of season four in 2027.

Owners include Tom Brady, whose Team Brady won the first two championships, as well as Rafa Nadal, LeBron James, Virat Kohli, Didier Drogba, Steve Aoki, Marc Anthony and Will Smith. John Williams, managing director, E1, says the celebrity owners have given the young sport a much larger audience than it could have built so quickly on its own.

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E1 planned the series as a remote production from the start. Production partner Aurora Media runs the show with Timeline Television, which hosts the director, producer, commentators and replays at its Ealing Broadcast Centre in London. Signals travel over public internet as ASI over IP with SMPTE 2022-7 protection, and the on-site infrastructure fits in three racks, plus a fourth for internet distribution. E1 says the model cuts on-site staff by about 45% per event. Emily Merron, technical producer, Aurora Media, says the series couldn't run without remote production, given the temporary waterfront venues it races at.

Cross Shore Media supplies stabilized Agile cameras on five RaceBirds and a chase boat. Miami is one of the venues that gets two DJI drones instead of one. Al Kamel Systems handles graphics and real-time telemetry from Barcelona, and BadAss XR Studio uses that data for AR overlays, digital ad boards and virtual course marks.

Laurence Boyd, chief content and product officer, E1, says the editorial goal is to give viewers access to all areas. That includes team radio, messages from the team owners' WhatsApp group shown on screen, and interviews with pilots in their boats right after they cross the finish line. Boyd says he wants some of the owners' star power to carry over to the pilots.

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